With the use of our excellent 100M rifle range facility, we can offer invaluable time for practice and perfecting of your shooting skills. ‘Trigger Time’ spent here shall pay dividends out in the field – the one place where you want that special shot of the day to count. We are now also an approved Firearms Training Provider. Please see below for the latest addition to our training portfolio – ‘The Assisting Shooting Loading – Level 2′ LANTRA course.
Alastair is a LANTRA Awards accredited freelance instructor for firearms courses and for 2011 we offer basic rifle handling courses, ideally suited to the first-time FAC holder using rimfire rifles and an Advanced 2-day course, for the professional operator. Some Police Firearms departments may insist on some form of firearms training before the issue of a Firearm Certificate :– we can accomodate that requirement, to fully qualified LANTRA Awards levels.
On the airgun side, Alastair is working towards his British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC) Airgun Coach qualification, which shall sit alongside his LANTRA accredition and shall be running the short Airgun SafeShot course at our Hunter Field Target Facility. Be sure to improve your airgun handling skills, from competition level to hunting in the field.
IN SHORT, we offer:
Firearms Training in:
Our Latest – LANTRA Assisting Shooting Loading Level 2.
A one-day Level 2 course aimed at candidates with some prior knowledge and experience of shotguns and shooting safety. Candidates may progress on to engagement as loaders and assistants in formal game shooting, either recreationally or linked to a work role requirement. The course covers the role of the loader, etiquette and behaviour in the field, quarry identification, legislation as well as single and double gun safe loading procedure. Upon successful completion the candidate will be awarded a LANTRA certificate. Min. candidate age 16yrs.
LANTRA:
Who the course is for
This is a Level 2 course and previous knowledge or experience is expected of candidates. The course is designed to consolidate and progress existing shotgun and field shooting competence as these apply to the loading and assisting role. Candidates may progress on to engagement as loaders and assistants in formal game shooting, either recreationally or linked to a work role requirement.
Am I eligible?
The minimum age to enroll on this course is 16.
Course content
- Introduction
- The role of the shooting assistant/loader
- Standards of behaviour and etiquette in the shooting field
- Quarry identification – status and context
- Shotgun knowledge (assistant/ loader)
- Firearms legislation (assistant/loader)
- Shotgun and equipment maintenance (assistant/loader)
- Loading routines safe handling and use: single gun
- Loading routines safe handling and use: double guns
- Risk assessment and planning for health and safety
- Shooting assistant/loader: applied health and safety – managing risk
LANTRA Basic Rifle (Rimfire or centrefire) Handling and Safety.
A one-day course, based at the rifle range, where Estate rifles are available, or you can use your own. We cover basic ballistics, safety, zeroing, rifle handling techniques and accurate shooting, from different positions. A LANTRA Awards Certificate is awarded to successful participants.
LANTRA:
Firearms Use and Preliminary Safety (Rifle) – Level 1
The aim of the assessment is to complete the training and ensure successful candidates have the understanding and ability to operate and use equipment as appropriate within a competent operating environment, in a manner that promotes and maintains the highest standards of safety. It should be impressed on candidates that only experience and practice will enable them to manage a firearm and operate safely in a range of recreational and working situations and avoid undue risks.
Age requirements
The minimum age to enroll on this course is 16.
Content
At the end of the course, each candidate will have been given the information enabling them to:
- Introduction
- The sporting rifle
- The rifle cartridge
- Legislation and the use of firearms – rifles
- Cleaning and maintenance
- Basic health and safety and rifle use
- Rifle – safe handling and use (practical)
- The storage and transportation of rifles
- The benefits of shooting sports
LANTRA Advanced Rifle Handling : Safety, Theory and Practice.
The 2-day LANTRA Awards Advanced course is geared towards the professional pest controller and fox shooter who requires an accredited qualification for health and safety or employment reasons. This includes the 100, 50 and 25 metre shooting test and night time simulated lamping exercise. Again, Estate rifles can be supplied if required. Very intensive and geared towards professional operators.
WMS Steel Challenge – From 100 – 2000 metres…..
For those seeking a new challenge, our relationship with Andrew Venables and the WMS Steel Challenge (http://www.wms-firearmstraining.org) brings true long-range rifle shooting and advanced skills to the average shooter. Based in the heart of Wales, the Llangurig shooting facility offers 5000 acres of mixed targetry, firing from a wide variety of different positions. Shoot prone, kneeling, standing, take 1:3 drop shots to downhill targets 300-400 yards away, work the ballistic maths and send bullets over a mile – it is all possible at WMS.
See a range of videos of our previous trips HERE.
